When Disaster Struck, Volunteers of America Found an Innovative Way to Help
Catastrophic flooding in Baton Rouge left residents looking for answers, so VOA met them in the library
America’s Angels stories focus on the people and programs of Volunteers of America. Helping people is one of the greatest gifts we can give others, and at Volunteers of America, helping people is their business. It’s an organization that helps everyone from veterans to children, giving with open hands to those in need and transforming lives in the process.
Catastrophic flooding in Baton Rouge left residents looking for answers, so VOA met them in the library
A retired middle school teacher helped transform the life of a young man with Asperger’s
His love for music sustained him in hard times. Volunteers of America helped him in ways he couldn’t have imagined.
In the midst of changing career paths, Christine Rowsey lost her job and her car. Would she also have to sacrifice her dream of doing something that mattered?
Here’s a look at moral injury, a relatively new term for the emtional and spiritual pain that can afflict soldiers and others who are asked to perform actions that run counter to their moral codes.
Moral injury is a wound to the conscience, and nothing inflicts it more deeply than war. Here’s how one veteran found healing after a traumatic event in Iraq.
In 2007, the now-Retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Marshall Powell served as a medic in Iraq. After his deployment, he returned home with an injury that wasn’t visible to the eye. He had suffered what is now termed “moral injury”: the internal suffering that results from an action that goes against one’s moral code. As he
Jack, a Miniature Australian Shepherd who was the runt of his litter, wasn’t Laura’s ideal candidate to serve as a therapy dog at the senior residence center where she worked—or was he?
Meet Jack, a Miniature Australian Shepherd who serves as a therapy dog for the seniors at Gulf Coast Village, a Volunteers of America-sponsored retirement community in Cape Coral, Florida.
Be inspired by this story of how the Family Motel, an emergency shelter run by the faith-based nonprofit Volunteers of America, is impacting the lives of the most vulnerable among us.
Volunteers of America partners with Guideposts on an “America’s Angels” series.
Colton had recently lost his father and he was being bullied at school. But a police detective recommended him for a Volunteers of America sleepaway camp that made all the difference.